'La cena', the new comedy by Manuel Gómez Pereira, is filmed

Manuel Gómez Pereira shoots 'La cena' in different locations in Valencia, Madrid and the Canary Islands, a comedy set in a Franco celebration two weeks after the end of the Civil War with a script by Joaquín Oristrell, Yolanda García Serrano and Manuel Gómez Pereira.

Produced by Cristóbal García from The Terrace Films, Lina Badenes from Turanga Films, Roberto Butragueño from Sidereal Cinema, Between Medina and Genaro AIE and Halley Production, Dinner is being filmed, in the words of Gomez Pereira, with a "very attractive cinematic time" and an "exercise of precision" typical of comedy: "The action takes place in one day, from eight in the morning until dawn. And as time passes, the order becomes a time bomb; there will be no turning back."

Dinner is set in the day April 15, 1939, date on which, two weeks after the end of the Civil War, Franco He proposes celebrating the victory with a dinner with all his generals. What he doesn't know, the synopsis says, is that dinner will be prepared by some Republican cooks who are facing their last opportunity to flee the country.

Mario Casas and Alberto San Juan They lead a choral cast that is completed by Asier Etxeandia, Nora Hernández, Óscar Lasarte, Martín Páez, Elvira Mínguez, Carlos Serrano, Carmen Balagué, Eva Ugarte and Antonio Resines, among others. Another of the main protagonists will be the location in which it is set. Dinner: he Hotel Palace. According to Manuel Gómez Pereira, the space "is a setting that is as attractive as it is hyper-realistic, where the viewer is immersed in the unstoppable adventures of these characters who move in a Madrid in the immediate post-war period. The Palace Hotel as the center of action in the film promises a powerful visual work where the light insistently shades joy, fear and violence. A place where it seems that peace has been declared, but fear is still present. In this small post-war Spanish world many elements of the conflict.”

'The dinner' has the participation of RTVE, Movistar Plus+ and Crea SGR, in association with Film Factory Entertainment. The film, which benefits from financing from the Ministry of Culture, Institut Valencià de Cultura and Madrid City Council, will arrive in theaters thanks to Against the current.